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The Sophoclean Chorus - R. W. B. Burton: The Chorus in Sophocles' Tragedies. Pp. 302. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. £16.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

James Diggle
James Diggle
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Queens' College, Cambridge
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The Classical Review , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , April 1982 , pp. 12 - 14
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1982

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1 The ‘organ-voice’ of Aeschylus, contrasted with the ‘chiselled clarity’ of Sophocles (p. 169), is happily a unique aberration.

2 See Waldock, A. J. A., Sophocles the Dramatist (Cambridge, 1951), ch. 2.Google Scholar

3 ‘Repugnance’ has gone, but ‘reluctance’ remains, in the same author's Sophocles: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1980), p. 191.Google Scholar